I think he overpays for paper and the like, but failing to shop around for the cheapest A4 is hardly a hanging offence.

A root around in the 2006-2007 expenses shows that the Croydon Central and South Conservative Federation had to send him an invoice reminder before he paid up for constituency services - page 39. He seems to specialise in USB stick drives, as he has bought at least three in the last two years. Mind you, so have I.

Elsewhere, I nominate page 76 of the expenses claim for the most idiotic piece of censorship. The model number of the HP scanner he bought is blanked out, although the fees office is happy for us to know that his Belkin USB hub was the economy model.

Moving swiftly on, Malcolm Wicks (Croydon North, Lab) specialises in waiting until he gets a reminder before ponying up for his bills. He also gets us to do pay for his tax returns (p34).